Merged dynamicwebs master into task/3731/cdist_ssh_key_handler

utils/tasks.py

@@ -3,12 +3,27 @@ import tempfile
 from cdist.integration import configure_hosts_simple
 from celery.utils.log import get_task_logger
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
 
 from dynamicweb.celery import app
 
 logger = get_task_logger(__name__)
 
 
+@app.task(bind=True, max_retries=settings.CELERY_MAX_RETRIES)
+def send_plain_email_task(self, email_data):
+    """
+    This is a generic celery task to be used for sending emails.
+    A celery wrapper task for EmailMessage
+
+    :param self:
+    :param email_data: A dict of all needed email headers
+    :return:
+    """
+    email = EmailMessage(**email_data)
+    email.send()
+
+
 @app.task(bind=True, max_retries=settings.CELERY_MAX_RETRIES)
 def save_ssh_key(self, hosts, keys):
     """